Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, there's a name I haven't heard in almost two decades. Back in the day when I was home shopping in Ohio, I had the misfortune of witnessing multiple Arbor Homes with basement floor joists 22" on center instead of 16. Funny how many of them had the identical hole in the first story floor in the identical spot right at the bottom of the stairs leading to the second story.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

Why you gotta call me out like that?

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because I think quality of presentation is not being factored into the assessments you're seeing on that wiki.

I tend to recommend Healthline to the public because it clearly targets a lay audience, and chooses to meet that audience where they live. It's written the way I talk to my patients, and the information is accurate and accessibly easier to read.

Just look at the difference between the pages on hypertension from Healthline and MedlinePlus:

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-blood-pressure-hypertension

https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressure.html

The details and accuracy of the information is not different. But the way Healthline presents it is so much more accessible.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago

Same. Years ago my grandfather received a call from a guy claiming to be my younger, male cousin saying he was in jail for something and needed bail. Luckily (?), my grandfather was an asshole and told him to call his mother.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The best thing to happen from WebMD is we got a bunch of actual medical providers like Mayo Clinic, University of Maryland, Merck Manual that went, "GAH! No!!" and made actually informative, updated medical websites.

Healthline, kids. Healthline is where we go for our medical information.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just did. Won our vote Wednesday night 💪

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

no illicit drugs were present

I'm deeply afraid that this might have turned out differently if she had even something as simple as cannabis in her system.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Republican obstruction and wanton destruction is responsible for the lack of progress. Refusing Medicaid expansions and then overturning the individual mandate is what gutted the plan.

And sure you could jump right into single payer without any incremental change. But you're going to put the 400,000 Americans currently working in the health insurance industry out of work, if you do that. Which is not a small consideration. (That's per a CBO analysis of the feasibility of single payer, which does conclude it would save money, but it will require a massive work transition.)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/congressional-budget-office-scores-medicare-for-all-universal-coverage-less-spending

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I really appreciate the effort you put into this. It's so much fun to read these posts and learn about owls I would never have known existed otherwise. Like, somehow I could always imagine like sparrows being this diverse, but it would never have occurred to me that owls are as well.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah that camouflage is pretty amazing. And I've been really surprised how many of these owls you're posting are in the tropics?! My whole life, I thought of owls as cold weather birds for some reason.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

That was during wartime and it was a court martial. Courts martial are still notoriously harsher than civil courts today.

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